Young Legionnaire – Numbers * Single of the day * release date 2/5/2011

Young Legionnaire are Paul Mullen (of the Automatic), Gordon Moakes (of Bloc Party) and Dean Pearson (formally of The Flowers Of Evil) who replaced William Bowerman (currently drumming for LaRoux). Now that the pedigree is sorted I'm happy to report that the music lives up to the billing.

Numbers attacks from the first beat and keeps its vice like jaws clenched all the way through. There’s some relief during the confessional chorus, but its mearly a loosening of the grip as opposed to letting go. Stunning stuff from an awesome rock power trio. Young Legionnaire's album, Crisis Works is released on Monday (9 May 2011).

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Freeze The Atlantic – Waking Up * Single of the day * release date 18/4/2011

Waking up is a fantastic track from Freeze The Atlantic's début E.P. Colour By Numbers, the C.D. of which even comes with crayons to fill in the black and white cover.

Starting off as indie pop and effortlessly flicking back and forth to rockier sounds Waking Up has tremendous dynamism, heightened half way through with an injection of sublime riffs and even containing a pregnant pause.

Imaginative and faultless in composition and arrangement it's pretty heady stuff from the Farnborough based band. 

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